[Mailman-Users] Why won't Mailman send mail?

[Todd]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Mark Haney wrote:
> Okay, I followed the FAQ on why mailman won't send email to users.  The
> big thing I noticed is that in /etc/passwd, the mailman account has a
> default shell of /bin/false, is that supposed to be?

I don't *think* that'll break anything, but then, I'm not using the redhat
rpm and my mailman users doesn't have /bin/false as a shell.

> Also, there's no home folder for the mailman user, so I can't check on the
> cron jobs.  Should I assume that, with no cron jobs running, no mail is
> going out?  

2.1.2 doesn't use the cron jobs for sending mail AFAIK, so even if they
weren't setup right, that should affect mail delivery.  It would break some
other stuff though so you want to check that they are setup.  You can do
that like so (from an account with sufficient privileges, like root):

    crontab -u mailman -l

> Aside from that here's a copy of /var/mail/maillog concerning my recent
> attempt to send an email to the list, is this any help with figuring out
> why I can't get list mail sent?
>
> Jul 22 11:13:31 pcweb sendmail[30892]: h6MFDUrW030892:
> from=<m_haney at hotmail.com>, size=822, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<BAY9-F62jLQZwbVcxjX00009b5f at hotmail.com>, proto=ESMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=bay9-f62.bay9.hotmail.com [64.4.47.62]
> Jul 22 11:13:32 pcweb sendmail[30893]: h6MFDUrW030892:
> to="|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post weather",
> ctladdr=<weather at pcweb.polk.k12.nc.us> (8/0), delay=00:00:01,
> xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=prog, pri=31032, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> Jul 22 11:13:34 pcweb sendmail[30895]: h6MFDYrW030895:
> from=<weather-bounces at pcweb.polk.k12.nc.us>, size=1863, class=-30,
> nrcpts=1, msgid=<BAY9-F62jLQZwbVcxjX00009b5f at hotmail.com>, proto=ESMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]

That says the mail got passed to mailman OK.  You might want to look at the
mailman logs to see what errors might have prevented it from going out to
the list.  I think redhat puts them in /var/log/mailman .

- -- 
Todd              OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp
============================================================================
Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything, but you still
can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: When crypto is outlawed bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

iD8DBQE/HXh3uv+09NZUB1oRAqGvAJ4sUcvwwDpuZ1+LI3RpuLocN6iheQCgmMDf
YMkWp+DbcwCXcs15NWJ4KCg=
=PhBU
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----